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This chapter studies absence as emptiness, an empty vessel that once held life. It looks at the connections between the empty house, the empty shell and the skull – which is the most traditional ‘memento mori’ – that appear in Jacob’s Room and To the Lighthouse. The chapter shows that the skull is pictured as a ‘vast mind’, or a dome of wisdom.

This chapter studies absence as emptiness, an empty vessel that once held life. It looks at the connections between the empty house, the empty shell and the skull – which is the most traditional ‘memento mori’ – that appear in Jacob’s Room and To the Lighthouse. The chapter shows that the skull is pictured as a ‘vast mind’, or a dome of wisdom.